Motivational Quotes

Action

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

2.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

3.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

4.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

5.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

6.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

7.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

8.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

9.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

10.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

12.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

13.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

14.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

15.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

16.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

17.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

18.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

19.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

20.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

21.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

22.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

24.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

25.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

26.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

27.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

30.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

31.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

32.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

33.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

34.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

36.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

37.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

38.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von